Chris Cavallucci

User Experience Architect

The following items helped me communicate my design thinking with team members and clients. For the moment, this set is very limited until I can move more of my work online.

I would prefer to share my work with you in person so that we could discuss the use context and the elements used in a particular artifact. That conversation is beneficial because there’s always a set of conditions at play on a project e.g. urgency, level of fidelity or detail, reference materials, version control, etc. The in-person discussion will give you an opportunity to question my thinking and probe in a particular area or behavior. If you would like to have that meeting and conversation, please contact me.

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Experience Maps

Experience maps can take many forms and represent many different aspects of UX. For example, this map of Twitter is simple and shows the relationships between functional elements. I’m working on an online version to allow people to collaborate and add more specifics.

Site Maps

Site maps are evolving to better communicate page hierarchy, patterns, modules, user flow, and project phases. The following site maps are two examples that just touch upon the more complex representations of a system.

Vertical Layout – The team used my site map during the major redesign of a client’s web site. In this document, I added version tracking, template assignment, and content coding. Version numbers were paired with wireframe version numbers. The content development and front-end development teams easily traced document changes as the project progressed through its iterative life cycle. Contribution: 75% The other 25% represents a chunk of work I inherited from the previous IA who created the initial style template and preliminary structure.

Horizontal Layout – This site map was used during the redesign of a web site for a health care informatics company. The team used this version in the initial phase of the project. Contribution: 100%

Whiteboards

I held a whiteboard session with the team to work through a pair of scenarios for our personas, Sam and Julie. The process involved ideation, exploration, and activity description. As a side benefit, I discovered the potential for a new, unexpected solution which leveraged the technology of another client. Contribution: 100%

Interactions

ecomobilize -LG Mobile Phones has a recycling program with drop-off locations in the USA. The production site’s Drop page has an interaction design that was based on one of my prototypes done in Axure RP. The user’s goal was to find a nearby recycling location.

Coming soon

More Experience Maps, Sketches, Personas, User Stories, and Wireframes. Site prototyping with Axure, Fireworks, and ProtoShare.